While the moves were driven by Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, the company’s communication with its customers proved to be the company’s real downfall. Recently, the company has been in the midst of a turnaround, but it was still in need of a new marketing chief.

Bennett, Netflix’s new CMO, comes to the company after nearly a decade at Warner Bros. Working at the pictures group, he was VP of Interactive, Worldwide Marketing, where he led international online campaigns for Warner Bros. movies. Prior to that, he ran digital marketing for the studio in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

With that in mind, Bennett is well-positioned not just to help Netflix rebuild its brand in the U.S., but could also be instrumental in the company’s international expansion. Netflix has launched its streaming video service in Canada, Latin America, and the U.K., but its new markets have been slower to develop than it might have liked so far. Having someone like Bennett, who has a strong background in international marketing could help change that.

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OverviewNetflix is an online television network that is engaged in the internet delivery of TV shows and movies directly on TVs, computers, and mobile devices in the United States and internationally. It provides its services under three segments: international streaming, domestic streaming, and domestic DVD.
The network enables members to access and view more than one billion hours of TV shows and movies …